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...teasing each other. What can be seen right away is how well she has taken six of A.B.T's best dancers, Cynthia Gregory, Fernando Bujones, Martine van Hamel, Clark Tippet, Magali Messac and Robert La Fosse, burnished their skills and made them look fresh. This 28-minute ballet contains the role that Gregory has waited a career for, showing her matchless turns and balances and presenting her very simply as herself: a vibrant, modern virtuoso instead of the fairy-tale queen she has very nearly frozen into...
...ballet that really rang in Tharp's big season was Bach Partita, which American Ballet Theater is performing on its current tour. Despite some radical moves, it is a classical ballet that Petipa would recognize, and as such, it completes Tharp's range as a choreographer. She has nothing more to prove; the challenges now are the ones that she, a master, gives herself...
Tuesday night's performance seems to say that ABT is potentially still the same company of international acclaim as its dancers are masters of classical ballet and also versatile in other areas. However, in the future, it must filter out those pieces that detract, rather than heighten that impression...
...regained its national prestige with the last piece on the program. Twyla Tharp's "Push Comes to Shove." This ballet is a with, virtuosic, humorous dance that had its world premiere in 1976. This almost ultra modern dance takes classical ballet and turns it inside out. Twyla Tharp catches each tradition and turns it into a hilarious joke. With music by Fran, Joseph Hayden and Joseph Lamp and a confident, clever set of dancers. "Push Comes to Shove" was a smashing hit. Tuesday night Danilo Radojevic. Marianna Techerkasky and Susan Jaffe led the ballet although Cheryl Yeager and Clark Tippet...
This dance, like "The Leaves are Fading," has not plot. Its central them is a satire of classical dance. The prelude opened with the three leads tossing around a derby hat, alternation jazz and ballet, relaxed and tense positions, humorous and serious approaches to the ballet. The entire dance continued with this anti-traditional attitude and always seemed to have a surprise in store for the audience. In fact, three-quarters of the time, the audience either was laughing or snickering. Danilo Radojevic was superb in his characterization of the male lead. He acted and danced, poked fun and tried...